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Nathan Lambert Reacts to Claims About Chinese Models’ Blackwell Training

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Nathan Lambert questioned whether Will Depue’s claims about Chinese models using NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs were already known. Depue said a forensic analysis of open model weights matched six Chinese models to Blackwell systems and that senior researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic independently verified the findings.

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  1. Nathan Lambert Reacts to Claims About Chinese Models’ Training Chips

    Nathan Lambert asks, “I thought people already thought/knew this?” while quoting Will Depue’s post about a forensic analysis of open model weights. Depue claims the analysis matched six Chinese models to NVIDIA Blackwell systems and says the findings were independently verified by senior researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic.

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